I'll never forget Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky 

This was a monster of a game to condense into a single video like this, so please give a massive thanks to my editor Cloé and send her support here twitter.com/xashtaricx . I love the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series and it was a huge nostalgia trip to relive the best one in the series. I don't think I'm going to stream the postgame as its monstrously long, but I want to tackle some of the special episodes later this year. I hope everyone enjoys the nostalgia and this video :)

First half of the game: "Wow these characters are so funny!" Second half of the game: "I'll never be the same again."

Friendly reminder that this is a kid's game where you deal with basically the death of not one but two close friends while ACTUALLY saving the world and FEELING like you're actually doing it all the way through. So under-rated.

Y'know, as a kid, I never realized how many red flags the guild had. -identification via feet pics -competition with other guildmates on bounties -90 percent of earnings for completing bounties go to the Guild -forced to smile and never complain

Grovyle is definetly Internet Explorer, with how late he appeared and how long it took him to explain the important parts

At a certain point, the fact that they're named after browsers just dissolves away and you only think of that as their names. Chrome is Chrome. Firefox is Firefox. People are crying.

*plays game as a child and cries* "Man, that game sure was emotional. But surely as a big, tough grown-up, it wouldn't be nearly as bad." *replays game as an adult and cries even harder*

i remember i finished this game as a 7-year old on the plane on the way home from a vacation to Greece. I was sobbing so hard, and I remember my mom asking me whatever could make me cry so hard on my DS. I retold the story the best I could and I remember her hugging me and telling me it sounded like I had been on quite an adventure and I cry just thinking about it... That was the day my mom realized games were a lot more than just entertainment. She even played through the game herself later and cried about it too. One of my most treasured memories for sure

the story was so hard hitting that even the silly web browsers names didn't break the solemn mood

The craziest part about this whole playthrough was when Cloe said "It's editing time" and edited this entire game into less than three hours. Absolutely one of the moments of all time.

I can’t believe how hard this game made me cry as a kid

the guy ordering the cheri berry from the bottle in the beginning was actually grovyle…he was trying to prevent the paralysis of time it’s all connected guys

I'm not ashamed to say that the part where Chrome was disappearing I actually started to tear up and continued for the rest of the video.

I just realized team Search Bar also works as a name because RT spends half this time in this game at a bar

I love the "goofy guy who is actually incredibly powerful" trope, like wigglytuff or netero.

Explorers of Time was the first Pokémon I ever played when I was a kid, and even nowadays "Don't Ever Forget..." makes me a bit teary eyed and I'm not ashamed to say it. Truly a masterpiece of a game!

This game feels like a REALLY good fanfiction

Whenever this game eventually gets a remake like Explorers DX, I can already tell it's going to be a fun and emotional time playing it with how they're going to remasters those certain scenes. Also, props to RT for managing to stream this game 5 days in a row and Cloe editing all the highlights together to make this nearly 3 hour video, all before Tears of the Kingdom comes out!

Explorers of Sky, in my opinion, is the best game of the entire Pokemon Franchise. Its story is legendary, its gameplay addicting, its characters unforgettable, and it has so much extra post-game content that the end of the main story might as well be only the half way point for the full story.

This game series was my childhood, my mom accidentally bought instead of a mainstream Pokémon game. It’s by far my favorite ds game of all time.

I used to wear a time gear necklace my sister gave to me for my 10th birthday, and once I turned 18 I got the full thing tattooed on the back of my neck! This game has had an IMPACT on me and I’ll never forget it as well

Fun fact: You can use wondermail to actually legitimately recruit a Primal Dialga. You can use a code that inserts the boss fight into Beach Cove and another that gives you an egg as a reward. And because an egg can give you any Pokémon in the dungeon, Primal Dialga is in that pool of Pokémon. There's some other steps to it because of how eggs work, but I think it's neat.

Yay! He's playing the best pokemon spin off!

PLEASE play the post game content on stream. Do all of it. This game is MASSIVE and it deserves recognition for how massive it really is.

I hope he plays the bonus stories, there's some rlly good stuff in there, especially the grovyle and dusknoir one, it's so good

For people who enjoy this game's soundtrack, don't forget to check Arata Iiyoshi (one of this game's composers) works after he no longer worked for Chunsoft/PMD Series ! He made some amazing songs that carry a lot of a PMD vibe to them (such as Bridal Festival, and Claiomh Solais, both from the Fantascape Act 1 album), or a lot of the songs in his ETHNOPLEX album (although, for me, the long version of Bridal Festival takes the cake). You won't regret it !

I can never believe how fast Cloé works, and how consistently amazing her edits are Edit: don't forget ✨S N O R T L E✨

Having never seen anything of any Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, I want to say that this was awesome. I'm not crying, you're crying. I'm sobbing incoherently at the ending.

As a kid, that ending just destroyed me emotionally. As an adult, it still destroys me. They did it way too well.

you can actually hear in RT's voice that he aint trying to cry. man this game gives me so many good memories and because RT played it i started replaying too. I love this game and it will always be one of the games i will always treasure

The Igglybuff Episode actually made me cry as a kid. Never expected that from a Pokémon game

I remember playing this as a preteen, getting to the near end and bawling my eyes out, in emotional distress, and my sister walked in saying we have to go to the store for my mom, and i had to leave my DS on the charger at the scene of my partner returning to the guild. I sat in the car absolutely miserable the whole way to and back, and it still cracks me up thinking about it. Mystery Dungeon will forever be the best Pokémon series, and I'm mad we haven't gotten an entry since Super >:(

I got Treeco as my pokemon, so I was convinced that Grovyle was just the evolution of whatever pokemon you got. Took me watching someone else play to realize it was just a coincidence.

This is an absolute classic of a game. I personally believe it solos every other game that contains “Pokémon” in the title. No other game in the series has such a meaningful plot. When I was around 12, I was struggling a bit with mortality, and this game’s story actually affected the way I lived my life. It’s an incredibly powerful game, and I hope we get something else like it soon.

Mystery Dungeon is such an underrated series of games.

There’s nothing more heart dropping then entering a room with fifty items scattered on the floor. You just know your about to fight for your life

i just realized. your partner is acutely the chosen one in this game. the one you control directly is the side kick.

Wish the newer Pokemon games had stories as compelling as this one...I swear it's always the spin-offs I remember the most fondly

2:21:00 emotions on high stakes are skyrocketing Grovyle giving final farewells Meanwhile Dusknoir just grooving to the music in the back

I don't cry often but I replayed this game again and hearing the song "Don't ever forget" mixed with the climax will make me tear up no matter how old I get.

You can’t just include “never forget” in a mystery dungeon video title and expect people not to be crying

Just think about this for one moment... This game about having a different perspective in the Pokemon world unconventionally has one of the best anti suicide messages in all of media. The message of even if you think your life has no purpose or even to think that your presence is a setback to others... Only to find out.. everyone has a reason to exist even if that purpose is tiny or even misleading, Not one single soul deserves to be forgotten for that is a worse fate than death. To quote a ethereal spirit who went from a betrayer to a tragic ally... 'Did my life... shine?' And to that I said to him... It did... It will always shine bright.

18-19 hours of streaming condensed into a less than 3 hour video is really damn impressive considering these games usually take multiple videos

It's a testament to how hard the ending of the main story hits, that it still hits hard when the team are named after web browsers

I never thought POKEMON would make me cry, and yet here I am… bawling my fuckin eyes out. This was such an adventure, and I’m so glad I could be here for it all. Thank you for showing me this amazing game RT!

This game has the best story out of any in the Pokémon franchise and I will die on this hill.

I think it's really hard to have kids understand grief and loss, but I think this is one of the few games to do it in a way that isn't traumatizing.

THE SUNRISE SCENE MADE ME CRY IT'S SO GOOD

The only game to make me quite mid credits from crying. Only found out about the post game in 2019 due to me never being able to make it through the credits. I love this game

Shoutout to Arata Iiyoshi for composing a MASTERPIECE of a soundtrack for this game. Hearing the themes for the Time Gear, Temporal Tower, Don't Ever Forget; Memories Returned and the ending theme make those tears and emotions flow even more.

Even being over 10 years older than when I first played it, the entire hidden land section still makes me emotional af.

Still can’t believe that such a legendary vote was gerrymandered away from us…

I have a long personal story with Explorers of Time. It was my first pokemon game and I couldnt beat it. Left it for years, coming back to it when I was 16. Finally beat Dialga and after all I went through, the ending along with "I dont want ro say goodbye" fucking destroyed me. I will never forget this game

EoS is so good and I will forever hate how IGN scored it a 4.9/10 (didn’t even get past Apple Woods smh). PMD as a whole is underrated which is weird given the over abundance of feels.

the characters in this game mean everything to me. being a kid with an awful home life and feeling like you have a little found family to support you even in a video game is life-changing.

The "whose footprint" at the beginning sent a wave of nostalgia through me. This was the first mystery dungeon I played. Damn that sends me back.

30 seconds in & I'm already being annihilated by nostalgia

Here are all the boss fights: Koffing & Zubat: 5:25 Drowzee: 17:15 Groudon: 55:34 Manectric & Electrike: 1:09:45 Mesprit: 1:20:36 Grovyle: 1:28:05 Spiritomb: 1:42:00 Kabutops & Omastar: 2:09:55 Dusknoir: 2:16:50 Dialga: 2:27:27 Hopefully I didn't miss any :D

I never got the chance to play any Pokémon games as a kid. But damn, I feel like I missed out, this was so absolutely emotional, that ending drove me to tears. I got driven to tears by a damn Pokémon game, that is so wild. What a lovely little game, no wonder I hear nothing but praise for Mystery Dungeons online if this one is anything to go off of.

Even if you have amnesia it always made me a little sad you are ultimately closer to your partner over your old partner Grovyle. But at least special episode 5 confirms a happy ending, even if separately. Hoping you at least enjoy special eps and post game in your own time Dan, it's super worth. Edit: nvm end of the vid comment LET'S GOOO

This game is a staple of mine, and many others childhoods. So many great memories with phenomenal storytelling that I have yet to see other games match. This game is a classic and if you haven’t played it, I HIGLY recommend it. It’s an unforgettable journey from beginning to end

Explorers of Sky is probably my favourite game, not just for Pokémon but of all time. It is literally a dream playing through this and exploring dungeons, along with one of the best stories to boot. Best part is that almost each player Pokémon has a gimmick that the player can be used to make their experience theirs. Treecko and Pikachu get Agility; all the grass starters get Bullet Seed; Confuse Ray on Vulpix; Smokescreen on Charmander and Cyndiquil; Water Pokémon having extra ground in most Dungeons; Chimchar, Meowth and Todadile get Fury Swipes, the list goes on. The only Pokémon I can’t say have anything I can think of are Torchic, Eevee and Phanpy, but a player can have a fun time with them nonetheless.

It's incredible how well the story is written for these games compared to the main pokemon games. It's definitely been a Rollercoaster of emotions.

Time and Darkness was certainly an amazing experience, greatly helped by the fact that it had one of my favorite Pokemon (Grovyle) as a major character. Sky version was even better.

One of my favorite childhood games, one to never forget. It’s what easily made me love Grovyle so much, along with Dusknoir and Chatot. Such lovely characters and story, Glad to see peak being replayed

This is the one game that I want a remake for. My little cousin doesn't have a DS and I would love to show him this beautiful game that i grew up with. I have all 3 copies of them but EOT was a special gift. This game was the last gift i got from my grandmother before she passed away from cancer, and the ending broke me because I had beat it a week after she passed. I finished it when i was around 7 or 8. Thank you for playing this fantastic game and showing people this charming story. :)

This story doesn’t just destroy you when you’re a kid, this destroys you just as much when you’re an adult 😢

I cried too hard at the end of this, I have never heard of this game before and this story hit me like a frieight train

THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE GAMES OF ALL TIME!!! I had no idea you played it on stream!!! So excited to watch this!!

U know? All the usual chaos aside, i just love seeing Dan rlly enjoy a game and getting nostalgic, just such a pure form of happiness imo Hope y'all are having a great day/night :D

cried as a kid playing this, crying now as a 21y/o watching it and re-living it

This game was such a defining part of my childhood. I have so many wonderful, bittersweet memories of it. Y'know, the beginning quiz assigned me a Treecko as my character when I played Explorers of Time for the first time. So when I later found out about Grovyle's background... It felt like fate. I got so attached to that character dynamic, and I don't think I ever got over it. :')

this game BROKE MY HEART as a child and i'm so ready to be broken again

Whenever I need to cry to feel better I’ll just come back and watch this video again. The whole rainbow stoneship section breaks me every time 😭

Holy shit. I had this game when I was a kid but lost it and only had a hazy memory of a green room with a chatot. This is it! Thank you, RT!

I've been playing these games for over half my life and no matter how many times I replay it, I have ALWAYS cried when we had to say goodbye to our partner.

I'm actually currently playing through Time, and my girlfriend is playing Darkness alongside me - we're still shocked by how much longer than I remember it being. That said, Cloé being able to condense the whole story into two hours is insane; massive props to her! 🧡

I was confused when he said "the emotional impact of this game is already ruined" with the internet explorers of the sky, like 'I don't remember this game being sentimental' Gee, I guess I never finished it holy shit that was tough

RTGames continues to be the only letsplayer who plays the games from my ACTUAL childhood

Damn I was not expecting to be emotionally torn up from the funny time traveling pokemon game. Also if I had a nickel for every time the time traveling criminal was my favorite character in a game I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice.

I played this game as a kid and to this day it still holds up as one of my most favourite games of all time. I just want to say thank you so much dan for playing this game on stream and keeping the memory of this game alive.

This video really made me tear up. Even with the ridiculous names. Goddamn. I wasn’t ready for it to hit me like that.

PMD was a major part of my life as a kid. And seeing it now, in a vulnerable time of my life, it still hits hard. Thank you Dan, for playing this, and Cloé for editing it down.

rt talking about how the story got to him as a kid and as someone whos never seen this game before, its REALLY good. it got me.

PMD community is eating GOOD tonight! I adore this game and it's story, I'm glad RT has made a video on it so more people know about this underrated Pokémon game.

The Drowzee plot is wild considering the Pokédex entries of its evolution

My favorite part is when they realize how every sunrise can't be taken for granted. It never hurts to have that reminder. Thanks for sharing this.

Good god I didn’t expect to be choking back tears at the end, even though I’m watching someone else play and the protagonists have web browser names of all things It really shows just how strong this game’s story is. Add a bit of nostalgia and you have a game that manages to hit everyone in the feels without fail every time they play Edit: grammar error 💀

This game was the first game I ever played that made me cry. It's still so special to me. I had a cyndaquil and piplup though! So glad to see this game getting the attention it deserves.

This game was perhaps the greatest game of my childhood. I won’t ever forget.

The Mystery Dungeon series has been one of the best games I've ever played; and to think that RT would be playing Explorers of Sky (Which is 1 of the best games of the series so far) is unbelivable reliving our childhood, I can't wait to watch this!

God damn it. I can't watch this game's ending without choking up. I've seen it at least three times by now, but it still gets me.

Explorers of sky is a masterpiece

I don't think any piece of media made me cry as hard as I did when I first played this game. And even now, there are parts that still get me teary. It really is a testament to how well written the game is that, even when you know it's coming and you know that the ending is eventually a happy one, it still gets you

ive heard many things about mystery dungeon; just never thought the dungeon part was my tea. and while i wanted to know the games story (because i love storytelling), i never got around to doing it. seeing you play it made me finally watch it in full. and god, now i understand everything. i now understand why people love this game SO much. and honestly? i think im one of those people too now.

I like the title of this video, cause it encapsulates my feeling for the game perfectly. It was one of the first games I ever owned myself, and it had an enormous impact on me. Almost 15 years later now I still feel a huge wave of emotions whenever I hear the soundtrack. Truly, I will never forget Pokemon Mystery Dungeons: Explorers of Sky

Watching Dan play more Pokémon Mystery Dungeon makes me so happy, I love content he makes for himself more than playing popular games

Speaking as someone who considers this his favorite game of all time, I think one of the most important aspects to the story is how both the Player and the Partner get an equal focus in terms of story importance. This is something the other PMD games kinda struggle with to an extent, and I think Explorers’ exceptional balance is part of why it works so well. Like, the Partner is very much the protagonist. They’re kinda shy and unassuming, they want to become an explorer but lack in self-esteem, and not being all on their own is what finally helps them work up the nerve to take those steps. Over the course of the game, you watch them grow in confidence and resolve, but they also make it clear that having you there with them is part of what helps them build that confidence. You became such a close part of their life that, even at the end when they’ve reached the end of their character arc, they still break down in tears thinking of you. But then, the Player is also very much the protagonist. Your amnesia is part of what drives the story forward early on; at first it provides an excuse to join the Guild and be introduced to the wider world, while also providing some mystery here and there. You think you might learn something at Fogbound Lake, only for the mystery to remain unsolved. Then the twist hits, and when your backstory is revealed, most people do undergo their own shift in terms of how they look at their character and the game itself. It’s a rare case where a silent, ‘self-insert’ protagonist manages to have their own character arc, and it stems from the way the twist affects you, the IRL player. And again, of course, you both share equal footing. The Partner doesn’t overshadow the Player’s importance, but you also don’t overshadow them, either. The mystery of your identity and the reveals that come from it are a huge part of the story, but the Partner’s growth and desires are equally impactful. The whole emotional hook is arguably built upon the relationship between the two of you; you both work better together, both in-universe and in terms of writing.

Man, Explorers has such a good soundtrack. It's super solid throughout, but it really shines in the closing hours of the game.

Crossing the sea of time's song always gives me chills, and the sequence after temporal tower always hits me at my core with emotions. This game is a gem and I will treasure it always